Tell the World

Margaret Read MacDonald is an award-winning and internationally renowned author, storyteller, folklorist, and children's librarian. She has written or edited more than 50 books, and she teaches storytelling at University of Washington Information School and Lesley University. MacDonald has performed bilingual, tandem telling in the States and throughout the world with many listeners who speak little or no English.

Tell the World is a wonderful resource for storytellers, educators, and librarians. It provides a framework from which even individuals who have never been bitten by the storytelling bug can benefit as she highlights a variety of basic storytelling techniques, including line-by-line, tandem telling, summarizing, and interesting phrases….MacDonald has done a good job of bringing together a variety of voices frmo throughout the world who share her passion for storytelling.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Telling Through TranslationChapter 2: Line-by-Line TranslationChapter 3: Tandem TellingChapter 4: More than Words: Storytelling Without TranslationChapter 5: One Teller, One Story, Two LanguagesChapter 6: On the Translator's RoleChapter 7: Performing in a Second LanguageChapter 8: Story in Language InstructionChapter 9: Presenting Tellers of Other LanguagesChapter 10: Presenting Workshops AbroadChapter 11: Translation in a Signed LanguageChapter 12: Cultural ConsiderationsChapter 13: A Language of No WordsChapter 14: Tellers TravelChapter 15: On the Translator's ArtChapter 16: BibliographiesIndexAbout the Editor and Contributors